Plugged In Blog

We spend a fair bit of time at Plugged In keeping tabs on stories and studies correlating how entertainment and culture influence the choices we make.

Addictions and hard-to-break habits have been around forever. When I was a kid, for instance, one of the country’s big addiction problems involved that leafy,

They don’t call the universe the “black void of space” for nothing. Everything we see and can detect out there—stars, planets, galaxies—makes up just 4%

Earlier this summer, former Nickelodeon actress turned pop/R&B singer Ariana Grande nearly topped the charts with her catchy throwback hit “Problem.” And after reviewing the

You’d think we would’ve gotten sick of ’em by now. I’m talking superheroes. And before y’all start throwing rocks at me, let me remind you

At some point or another, just about everybody sits down and starts thinking about a will. If you were suddenly hit by a falling asteroid,

I don’t think movie studios are even trying anymore. It’s been five weeks since Guardians of the Galaxy was released to the masses, and the

When the preview for the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey was released recently, the organization Morality in the Media responded, “The newly

When I found out that Rich Tuliszewski, one of our Project Managers here at Focus on the Family, had been the General Manager of a

I recently went to a pop/rock concert with my youngest daughter and a good time was had by all. The group was OK Go, one